The Spirit World

Chapter 965 Shadow Falling (I)
Ah... do you think... this world... will get better...

"Ning Qing... where do you think they will fly to?"

He was wearing a black gown with white plum blossoms on it. His petite body was blown up by the wind, with his sleeves and white-edged long collar lifted up. The woods were filled with peach blossoms and flowing streams, stretching far away.

He found the riverside, leisurely accompanying the boat rocking gently. On this boat they built themselves, there was only a too simple raft, which was like a shooting star in the sea of ​​flowers.

The gentle sound of water, the quiet sound of wind, and the geese in the sky, singing loudly.

"South, it's winter, they are going south..."

Ning Qing stood on a peach blossom branch, grabbed a piece of peach blossom in his hand, clenched his fist, gritted his teeth, and threw the peach blossom into a water ball.

The water splashed out little by little, and after more than ten times, the peach blossoms tilted and sank into the water.

"Ah... can't we just stay here?"

Ning Ji sat at the bow of the boat, his feet quietly submerged in the water. The fish followed their boat, spitting light bubbles. They were crowded together, looking too fat. Their pink scales intertwined with the faint light, weaving into peach blossoms and golden scales on his profile, as smooth as light, and the mountains were hazy.

"Stupid, although Bailing Mountain is warm, it is not their home after all." Ning Qing jumped lightly, like a well-trained assassin, leaped onto the branch of another peach tree, looked left and right, and knocked another peach blossom into the water.

One strike, two strikes, three strikes, the "sharp" "knife" of the peach blossom cut the water surface, and this precise "water float" suddenly jumped in front of Ning Ji's bow of the boat, scaring away the following carp, and then bounced straight into the groove on the river bank and stuck into the rock.

Afterwards, he officially returned to the bow of the boat, like a "dark man" who had completed his mission. He supported himself on the ground with one hand and stared straight at the endless peach blossom forest that meandered through the twists and turns.

Those geese, out of place with the colorful scenery here, display their wings in gray and rough color.

"They come from the south and live in the swamps of the Elf Kingdom. They only came to the north to avoid the cold winter. They are just passing by here, why would they stay here?"

This sentence made Ning Ji look at him with wide eyes.

"Why can't we stay?"

Then he looked at Ning Qing in confusion and repeated it again.

"I mean... since they're running around because of the cold, why don't they choose a place where it's warm all year round? Right?"

Ning Ji was sitting, his eyes looking up as Ning Qing stood up. His long hair fluttered on his smooth, angular face. The peach blossoms were reluctant to leave, clinging to him tightly and quietly escaping from his face.

"Right? Right? Ning Qing, why? Why is this happening?"

He asked repeatedly, causing Ning Qing to roll his eyes in disgust as if he was a fool, then he closed his eyes, put his hands on his hips, and answered his stupid brother calmly.

"Because you are not a wild goose, you don't understand why the wild geese return to the Elf Kingdom. You don't understand that they don't just return to the nest because of the warmth... You don't understand..."

"But... you are not a wild goose... have you really seen them return to the Elf Kingdom? It's so far!"

Flocks of geese flew over their heads, and the mountains covered with peach blossoms were stained with a gray color.

"I don't want to discuss this kind of idiotic stuff with you."

"Hmm...but I really can't figure it out...Mt. Mingling is warmer than the Elf Kingdom all year round, so why are there still creatures like geese flying back and forth between the two regions..."

Ning Ji looked like he didn't understand at all. He looked at his impatient brother with a smirk on his face and wiggled his feet in the water. The fish came back and slowly followed him and the boat.

"Mingming, ha, wouldn't it be nice to just live in Bailing Mountain forever? Bailing Mountain is... a place where thousands of spirit beasts live... how great..."

"You are not a wild goose, you won't understand..."

Ning Qing opened his eyes, glanced to the side, snorted, and then stopped talking.

"Then Ning Qing, are you a wild goose? Do you understand wild geese?"

"I told you I won't discuss such idiotic issues with you."

"Hahahaha, you can't argue with me... Ning Qing... you are too rigid..."

Ning Ji was lying on his side, shaking a bamboo fishing rod at the bow of the boat. A silver hook was dotted on the long silver line. The fishing line without bait was quickly thrown into the side of the boat, and the fish were startled and scattered and gathered again.

"Humph……"

Ning Qing sat down, moved closer to Ning Ji, crossed his arms and closed his eyes to rest. He would not answer his brother's stupid and idiotic questions again.

They are the pride of Bailing Mountain, the chosen of the empire, but they skipped class while listening to an old gentleman's lecture. Ning Ji wanted to fish leisurely, and Ning Qing just came to accompany him.

"Ahaha~ I still can't understand..."

What Ning Ji was talking about should be wild geese.

He pushed himself back and sat up.

"Why...my mung bean cake was eaten by mice..."

It turned out that he was not talking about wild geese.

"How would I know……"

Ning Qing rolled his eyes, opened them slightly, and then closed them again.

"There are rats in Bailing Mountain... This is not the first time or the second time..."

"After all, mice are also spiritual animals... Bailing Mountain has nothing but spiritual animals... If there are many spiritual animals, there must be mice... And mice are not beneficial animals... Really..."

"You have answered yourself."

"what?"

"nothing……"

Ning Qing shook his head. Luo Hua Liu Shui was by his side. He was wearing an exquisite black robe. He was a little thin, and his fingers were so slender that you could see the white bones.

They were silent for a while, and then the annoying brother started complaining again.

"Ah... why... can't I always catch the fish I like?"

"..." Ning Qing heard this question several times. This time, he obediently stopped answering.

"Ning Qing! Ning Qing! Ning Qing!"

His brother never tires of calling him.

"Someone shouted for help, did you hear it?"

Perhaps he could really hear the faint cry for help. Ning Qing could only hear it if he listened carefully.

It was a cry for help.

Help... Help... Save me...

They stepped on the plank at the bow of the boat and ran towards the sound of the call for help.

"There shouldn't be any trace of magical beasts around..."

Ning Ji frowned, stepped on the peach blossoms, and ran with a sword in hand, making it difficult for the wind and dust to catch up with him.

"It's a girl! Maybe...she encountered a man-made disaster..."

Ning Qing stepped on the peach branch, his eyes were as sharp as torches, the green sword swung, and the flowers fell with his shadow.

After they crossed the Bridge of Marriage between the mountains and forests, they saw the girl who was calling for help.

There was another girl squatting next to the girl, whose origin they couldn't even identify.

The girl had her face covered with a veil and was wearing a white silk dress from an exotic place. It was impossible to tell where she was from. The girl who needed help was lying on her back, bleeding profusely and very weak.

When the foreign girl saw the two of them coming, she turned sideways and looked back. Her hat and veil turned, and a green wind blew past.

As the wind blew, they looked at each other in surprise...

How could that pair of extremely clear eyes belong to... a bad person...

(End of this chapter)